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If by "fix" you mean screwing over Wall Street, yeah, nothing gonna happen
I don't trust either of them to fix anything.
If by "fix" you mean screwing over Wall Street, yeah, nothing gonna happen
But you vote the Magic R
Only when the Dems nominate an especially repugnant candidate like Beto.
Who was the last Democrat you voted for governor? Ma Ferguson?
Oh look, another edgy libertarian freethinker pretending to hate Republicans as much as Democrats.
Welcome to the herd, bro!
lol calling yourself libertarian and voting anti-abortion
'This is Texas — get with the program':
Woman flashes gun at neighbors who came by to tell her about their party
A Houston woman is facing charges allegedly pointed a gun at a couple who let her know about an upcoming party in their apartment complex,
Brown, 35, was told by a judge to have zero contact with the couple and her bond was set at $10,000.
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-woman...aving-a-party/
Texas schools now refusing dictionary donations
thanks to GOP-backed book restrictions
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-book-ban-2658961066/
What a ed-up-to- state
CATASTROPHE #88:
THE BAG TEXAS LEGISLATURE RETURNS FOR A BRUTAL YEAR
What lawmakers should do to mitigate the state's cascading crises,
and what they are liable to do instead.
Firmly in control, Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and GOP lawmakers are now free to do as they please—to pick up where their vengeful 87th legislative session mercifully left off just over a year ago.
The party’s activist base is eager to
continue the march toward one-party authoritarianism,
punishing political enemies and
catering to political patrons as they go.
Many bills have already been filed to
further expand prosecution under Texas’ abortion ban,
along with measures to concentrate power over elections in the office of GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton and
to continue persecution of transgender children and their families.
From the 1970s well into the 21st century, the state regularly funded pay increases for its government employees.
But now workers haven’t seen a wage bump since 2014,
when lawmakers approved a modest 3 percent raise over two years,
accompanied by heavier workloads.
Employees in the lowest-paid positions are predominantly people of color, who are hit the hardest by these stagnant wages.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-preview-2023
Privately owned 1800 acre Park lease to Texas is going to be sold to a developer probably a repug benefactor
Hot Wheels Abbutt has billions for his border stunt but won't spend $100 million on this park for the people
Gov. Greg Abbott
touts ‘all-time high’
in Texas per-student funding, but he’s wrong
Bottom line: Texas ranks far behind the national average in per-pupil spending and teacher pay.
https://www.expressnews.com/politics...t-17774795.php
Damn...he's ing short as .
Probably some BigRepugDonor got approved by pollution-friendly TCEQ
'I Am Disturbed': Locals Alarmed Over Plan to Inject Toxic Ohio Wastewater Underground in Texas
"It's foolish to put it on the roadway," said one Houston-area resident.
"We have accidents on a regular basis. Do they really want to have another contamination zone?"
Residents and officials in Harris County, Texas have expressed alarm since learning that
contaminated water used to extinguish a fiery train crash in East Palestine, Ohio has been transported more than 1,300 miles to a Houston suburb for disposal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/to...moved-to-texas
TX is a hole, esp poisoned Harris county, why the not?
Fundamental tactic of the ChristoFascist/racist strategy is do destroy public education, replaced by re-segregated vouchers. Abbutt is pushing for universal vouchers
How bad is the teacher shortage in Texas?
Data only tells part of the story.
Enrollment in Bexar County’s charter schools,
which for this article includes both charter networks and “in district” charters in traditional school districts,
has increased by more than 8,000 students since 2019-20.
Among campuses that have been open since 2017-18, 54% have increased enrollment.
Eleven of these 83 schools have more than doubled their enrollment size in that period.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/art...e-17808944.php
End of Texas' open beaches might be near
Among coastal states Texas is unique.
The 1959 Texas Open Beaches Act, as well as time-honored common law and tradition in existence since long before 1959, provides that Texas beaches are open to the public.
In 2009, Texans voted by a 77 percent to 23 percent margin to enshrine the Open Beaches Act into the Texas Cons ution.
Senate Bill 434, by Sen. Mayes Middleton of Galveston, would
strip the authority of the Texas General Land Office to define the boundaries of the public beach and
would allow the upland beachfront property owner to make that determination.
The property owner could then deny access to the public beach easement that existed between the line of vegetation and the mean high tide mark.
That would then limit Texas beachgoers’ access to only what is known as the “wet beach” —
the area between the low tide and the high tide lines.
When that area is washed by waves during periods of high tide,
SB 434 would result in there being no beach at all for Texans to use.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-end-texas-open-beaches-120147728.html
$Bs of 313 tax cuts for BigCorp
but
Texas no longer has kids sleeping in Child Protective Services offices.
-- DMN email
bodily autonomy for women and free access to appropriate medical care is immoral.
Republican files bill in Texas House to let voters decide whether to secede from the U.S.
The bill, authored by far-right grandstander Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton,
failed to receive a hearing or a vote when he filed it in 2021.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/repub...he-us-31200199
TX Rep. Slaton Wants To End Taxes for People With Ten or More Children
State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Greenville) has filed House Bill 2889, which would
roll back all property taxes for Texans with ten children.
Under Slaton’s bill, married couples with four children, including adopted ones, would receive a 40 percent property tax credit. At ten or more children, the tax credit would be 100 percent. The bill clarifies that the couple must stay married.
Under Slaton’s bill, married couples with four children, including adopted ones, would receive a 40 percent property tax credit. At ten or more children, the tax credit would be 100 percent. The bill clarifies that the couple must stay married.
“With this bill, Texas will start saying to couples:
‘Get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply,’”
said Slaton in a press release.
he’s been connected to Jake Neidert, a Christian nationalist who has called for trans people to be executed in the streets.
A significant part of modern Christian extremism is large families, sometimes known as the quiverfull movement.
The practice is rooted in white supremacy and the idea that white Christians must birth an army of God.
quiverfull families often live in crushing poverty.
Malnutrition and child abuse (including sexual abuse) are rampant,
but seen as an acceptable price to pay for building platoons of highly indoctrinated children.
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/state-rep-slaton-have-10-children-and-pay-no-property-tax-15190307
CPS goes unfunded, understaffed, unmonitored, for years, but ...
Texas prepares its biggest bond deal ever to bail out natural gas utilities
The record $3.5 billion deal follows a two-year saga that saw
Citi and UBS dumped from the issuance over gun and oil and gas policies.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/...-gas-utilities
ChristoFascist TX bags, like FL, punish businesses, not for legal violations, but for politics. ing blatant fascism.
Bill would ban students in U.S. illegally, those from China, other nations from Texas universities
Russian, Iranian and N. Korean citizens would also be banned from the state's public colleges under bill by far-right lawmaker.
State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a conservative Republican from Arlington,
https://www.expressnews.com/politics...s-17832974.php
Texas legislature could strip cities of local authority
The Texas legislature is debating a pair of bills that would strip cities and counties of the right to set policy on a wide array of environmental, safety and discrimination issues.
These two state bills — House Bill 2127 and Senate Bill 814 — would bar municipalities from passing or enforcing local rules in several critical areas “unless explicitly authorized by statute.”
Seizing power: This means that unless the Texas legislature has given cities specific right to pass rules and ordinances pertaining to natural resources, agriculture or labor, such rules are null and void as soon as they are passed.
Potential nullified laws could range from new anti-discrimination rules to bans on certain kinds of pollution or industrial practices.
A bigger fight: The proposed legislation builds on nearly a decade of state Republican attacks on the autonomy of Texas cities — like Austin’s attempted ban on single-use plastic bags or Denton’s failed attempt to keep fracking out of city limits.
-- The Hill email
A new version of SB313 tax scam will exclude wind and solar projects
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